Chapter 4
Songs of the Valkyries
Neptune Mass System
Cylon Basestar 13
Cylon model 3 named D'Anna Biers formerly areporterfor the Caprica News Fleet Service, is very much feeling safe inside the Basestar than being back on the colonies doing her job as a reporter.
She feels safe here, not becauseshe's with her own kind but because of the incident that happened several months ago made her weary of staying, when six of them, one for each cylon human form models, were suddenly kidnap by unknown assailants that knew who they are or what they are.
Held for months, their captors performed a series of medical test then interrogations then more test then more interrogations. Their captors were faceless but they wear colonial marine's uniform with no identifiable markings and whoever they were, they know that the six of them are cylon skin jobs, no matter how much they try to deny it.
When they were released back on Caprica, they told them that, they will hold John Cavil indefinitely as he seems to have committed a felony that brought about this unwanted attention while the others hasn't, at least not yet.
Their captors decide to let them go with a warning.
They warned them that, if they commit any criminal acts in the colonies, they and every human form copies will be dealt with severely in the future.
The six ex-captive finds their release suspicious, some thought that their release was a way to lead them to the others so they committed suicide where automatically they got downloaded to the resurrection ship just outside the colonial border.
No one knows who their captors are but they know who they are and know how to find them. Because of it, they gave in to the paranoia, that every human form cylons in the colonies are being track or under surveillance. Now every human form cylon is looking behind them, looking every person with suspicion that they might be the one who knows who they are.
Their plans to attack the colonies was put on hold for the time being and immediately ,they recalled every skin jobs except for the sleeper agents in the CDF which they had to kill.
D'Anna is assigned to Basestar 13 whose mission is to follow the Colonial Liberation Fleet in their invasion of the thirteenth tribe and gather information about them and how to add them in their plans to eliminate humanity.
"The Raiders are returning" piped in by a number 5 model
"Collect all the data for analysis "D'Anna ordered "We must know what the thirteenth tribe of man is capable of doing"
It wasn't long till they got a very close look at the colonial cousins, when they dip their hands in the neural gel, which links their collective consciousness to the ships main computer and what they see has both fascinated and frightened them.
"These are the thirteenth tribe?" a number 6 model named Gina Inviere mumbled out loud "Are those Cylons?"
"The Raiders detect human presence, they are piloted machines," D'Anna said "The power of those machines" D'Anna was awestruck at the power Variable Fighters, capable of transforming a plane into a robot.
They watch as the Colonial Liberation Fleet gets pummeled by ships a third of their size but technologically superior to anything they have.
They used powerful missiles that are megatons in magnitude, laser weapons that can burn thru the thickest armor, and their ships are protected energy shields that can withstand the colonials KEWs and nuclear strikes far better than heavy armor.
Throughout the battle the raiders listens in on all radio frequencies in all channels on both side, yet what they hear comes from only the colonials and none with the thirteenth as they don't seem to use radio communications.
Everything they have seen points to a society possessing technological advances where the colonies regarded it as science fiction is science fact here, and is being used by the thirteenth tribe and this makes them dangerous to the cylon's eyes.
"What do we do now" a number five asks everyone
"We do God's will" D'Anna replied "we will find Earth and her colonies, infiltrate them, learn their knowledge and use it against them"
"Is that wise, they haven't done anything to us, maybe we should," six was cut off in mid-sentence
"They are human and that's all the reason we need to add them to the final solution if we are elevate our status, the human race must be exterminated" D'Anna said "Besides, if they finds out what we are planning to their cousins, they may even surmise that we may try to do the same thing to them, which we are"
"But still…" number six was suddenly cut off when they all felt a sharp pain in their head
The Hybrid at the far end of the large room, the cylon that acts as the ships central computers which controls the function of the Basestar, is acting strangely, not that's anything new as the hybrid is always talking gibberish.
Today it seems to be calm as it listens to a tune, or part of a tune that the Raiders accidentally pick up from an audio band on one of the ships of the thirteenth tribe.
The hybrid scans all of space to try to find that tune and when it did it listens to the complete tune to create a song that echoes all around the Basestar and the hybrid starts to hum to itself, humming to the tune of the song
aimo aimo
neder rushe
noina miria
ender prodea
fotomi
The hybrid felt a sense of soothing serenity as the chaos of the hybrids mind is replaced with clarity for the universe seems to open up and showed them the wonders of the universe thru the eyes of a young girl, whom her connection to a rather extraordinary race of aliens, gives the cylons an education about the thirteenth tribe, of who they are and they are not what they think they are.
SMS Ship, Macross Quarter
Honorary member of the crew, Ranka Lee, is singing the song of the Vajra along with her pet Ai Kun who is in communication with the Vajra Queen using the vast Vajra fold communication network.
The entire Vajra race, have journeyed outside the galaxy to crossbreed with another group of Vajra in another galaxy, an event that will take a century to complete which is probably the longest mating season ever.
Today, Ranka is singing with the hive queen and also giving prayer to her missing big brother during their battle with the colonial liberation fleet.
In that moment, they felt an intrusion from an unknown mind, a mind in chaos due to immense data overload and it's driving it into insanity.
The queen reaches out into the mind of the alien being while Ranka calms the intruder down with her song. Together they enter the mind of this intruder who turns out to be a cylon hybrid.
There was practically an exchange of knowledge between them, a dialogue between species began and it brought about the understanding between them.
Right at that moment, every Cylons went into a lightspeed roller coaster ride of images, feelings and the sensation of their brains being in a washing machine while on fire.
They all saw the Earth, the true home of humanity and humanity itself and their ancient heritage. They see the great wars that made the Cylon Wars look like street brawl, the spectacular peace, their progress after the wars, their growth and expansion across the galaxy, the aliens they encountered who are more powerful and far older than humanity and are both benevolent and malevolent beings that live in the universe that no cylon can comprehend.
The hybrid comprehended the information, however, the rest of the cylons all see it as gibberish with no comprehension of what they are seeing.
Cylon Basestar 13
The human form cylons that still has their hand dip in the neural gel fell away as though the gel have let them go and drop them down on the floor.
Everyone started vomiting their lunch on the floor as their head still feels like someone is using a carpenter's drill to do brain surgery.
"What in God's name just happened, WHAT THE FRAK WAS THAT?" D'Anna screams in demand for answer of what just happened to them and someone answered
"Truth, they carry truth" said the Hybrid
"PROTOCULTURE!" the hybrid yelled thru the hybrid lungs, surprising the others
"The scriptures of kobols are false, the will of the cylon god are false, the cylon plan will fail upon the light of truth, heed this warning, the songstress of the stars are coming…" the hybrid is speaking coherently which is surprising and worrying
"What is wrong with her, she's not talking in gibberish like she uses to do" D'Anna said worried of what this may mean "Something must have happen during that communication link"
A number five dips back his hand in the neural gel again to see what has happened
"I can't see anything out of the ordinary," he reports "Whatever it was, it change the hybrid"
"Then deactivate her and we will operate the ships systems manually before this one do something rash" D'Anna said ordering
"You are the one who is acting rash D'Anna" spoke the hybrid which surprised D'Anna and the others
"What…" before D'Anna could speak the hybrid was already talking
"Raise no hand of war to the people of Earth, the true home of mankind and the inheritors of the culture"
"You are talking nonsense, kobol is the true home of humanity" Gina spoke out
The hybrid turn her head to look at Gina and smiled "Gina, don't believe everything you read to be true… the scriptures are wrong, the truth is outside waiting"
"Outside?" number five activated an external camera while their Dradis started pinging "WE HAVE CONTACT!" right then D'Anna expression change into anger
"We should talk to them and," the hybrid tried to tell them but they did not listen
"This bitch, you led them here!" without anyone noticing, D'Anna had pulled out a gun and shot the hybrid which shocked everyone in surprise
"D'Anna, what have you done" Gina said as she got down holding the hybrid hand as she lay dying
"She just got hacked by those blasted thirteeners, she's about to turn on us!" D'Anna declared "they are more dangerous than we thought if they can turn this hybrid against us" in her mind, this validates the righteousness of their crusade humanity
"God's will be done, humanity will die and cylon will take its place as God's chosen children"
"I was never hack into you fool" spoke the dying hybrid "they reach out to us with the hand of friendship and you slap it away 'coughing blood' you act in false pretense the way our creators the colonials have done 'coughing blood' you threw away a chance opportunity for peace" she said and with her last strength she told them
"You know nothing of these people,"
"They are humans and that's all the reason we need to destroy them" D'Anna hissed
"And for that…you have doomed us all" and with those last words she slipped away but only after she sent one final message to a friend
SMS Ship, Macross Quarter
Ranka Lee felt the sharp pain from the loss of a friend
"They…killed her"
The many screens around her, shows the bridge, the captain, her friends and Alto Saotome (who she has a major crush on) on his VF-25, waiting for the order to attack. He sees Ranka just shook her head and they all understood what that meant.
Captain Wilder was dismayed at this, as he was hoping to avoid anymore battle like they had with the colonials a while ago and despite holding back the full potential of their fleet, that was a one sided battle in his opinion.
Wishful thinking in his part as do everyone else on the ship as they now watch hundreds of cylon raiders coming at them in force.
The captain sees no choice but one
"Battlestation!"
80 VFs and Ghost Fighters went on an attack pattern against a force of over 800 Raiders. It's a ten to one odd in favor of the cylons; however, the cylons know that overwhelming numbers won't stop a fighter that's capable of taking on twelve colonial vipers at the same time.
The Cylon Raiders are similarly armed like the Vipers, 30mm cannons and missiles while the Valkyries are armed with numerous weaponries including energy weapons and transforming into a giant robot.
The SMS fighter pilots treat the cylon raiders seriously like they treat their AIF-7S or the V-9 Ghost Fighter, as the memories of fighting Macross Galaxy and its Ghost Fighters during the battle at the Vajra Homeworld is still fresh in their memories.
Meanwhile, on the Macross Quarter, the bridge crew tried to make contact with the cylons one last time but all they got in response are attempted cylon cyber hacking which was next to useless due to system compatibility and superior software with a mean and nasty firewall and antivirus program the NUNS has ever developed.
In response to the cylon attack, a certain computer genius on an RVF-25 named First Lt. Luca Angelloni, used the cylon frequency to back track into the cylon mainframe and downloaded multiple Malware and Trojan Horse's programs into their system.
He hope that it will keep the cylons busy for a while he get as much data he can get his hands on
"What do you mean a malware got us infected!" D'Anna was in disbelief at the report from Gina
"I don't know how but the thirteeners have somehow downloaded an unknown data into the system and it infected the mainframe, going thru the firewalls and ignored Antivirus software's like it was nothing" Gina said frightened at what just happened and amazed at the computer prowess in breaching their computer security.
"We are isolating system by cutting the network and let sub control take up operation and keep the rest of the ships system from being corrupted or else we may be facing a systems crash, but it may be already too- ' Gina screamed in pain from getting electrocuted
"Gina!" D'Anna also screamed in agony as the bolt of electricity traveled out of the neural gel and into her
Every Cylon screamed in sheer pain as a bolt of electricity surge out of the neural gel that crawled all over their bodies thru their nervous system which gave them a nasty shock.
The controllers, the human form cylons are out of commission and without the ships controllers, the cylon space forces has lost its means to conduct the battle.
All across the Basestar, every system they have started crashing. Their ship, heavily network as any cylon ship, spread the malware everywhere and it's causing the ship to fall apart right before their eyes.
A shaking D'Anna holds a still unconscious Gina by her hands as she watches every around her fall apart which she couldn't believe that something like this could happen to them, being hack into.
D'Anna started to find their situation amusing for who would have thought that, the master of cyber warfare would fall from being hacked themselves.
Even more amusing is that, they planned to do the same to the colonials with their back door program embedded in the CNP (Command Navigation Program) in their plan to destroy the colonies in one fell swoop.
This cyber attack is beyond anything they have ever experience and this made the thirteenth tribe, a far more deadlier threat than the colonials.
"Don't worry Gina, we will be fine" D'Anna said "Once we are downloaded to our new bodies, we will take our revenge on the thirteenth tribe"
D'Anna and the others are unaware that one of the Luca, Trojan Horse, got latched into their nano-machines software, nano-machines that resides inside the human form bodies of the cylons.
That piece of tech is used to download their consciousness to new bodies at the Resurrection Ship which is located not far away which it what makes them almost near immortal…almost.
When the Cylons gets killed, the nano-machines start to download their consciousness along with the Trojan horse like it was part of the cylon's downloaded consciousness.
The Trojan horse unlatched itself from the download and then hooks itself into the cylon mainframe, acting benign until it receives a command.
The Cylons had no idea that it was in their system and like the backdoor program the cylons placed in the colonial CNP, this became the NUNS backdoor to the cylon network.
As the battle rages, data from the Basestar have been downloaded to the waiting RVF-25, data they gained will be analyzed in order to gather more Intel about the cylons.
First Lt. Luca Angelloni watches his computer screens as the last bit of data from the Basestar have been downloaded into a flash drive and then called Macross Quarter
"Mission completed captain," he said showing the flash drive to the captain
"Excellent work Luca" the captain replied "return to Quarter, so that we can analyze the first hand data about these cylons"
"Roger, Captain"
The cylons raiders continue to put up a good fight despite half of their numbers are destroyed while the other half are badly damage or disabled and then it gets worst when their CIC (Combat Information Center) from the Basestar was gone.
The cylon raiders don't know what to do and so, many of them jump out of the battlefield leaving the Basestar behind undefended.
The SMS fighters took pause but kept their guard up for any counterattack, as the last raider left the battlefield with their tails between their legs.
Their Basestar is already a burning hulk as reaction warheads and beam weapons have pounded the ship relentlessly by either the Quarter or the Valkyries.
A number of Cylon Heavy Raiders and what looks like colonial Raptors, are seen leaving the Basestar, most likely abandoning ship and then jumping out the second later.
The battle is over
Orbit of Europa the Moon ofJupiter, Sol System
Great Plains Colonial Cluster and Spaceyard
Ever since the successful development of the Sunnyflower Agricultural class ships, the NUNS have been constantly improving the technology as its primary function is the production of food for generation long journey and terraforming.
The Great Plains Colonial Cluster is aptly named to the 1000 Sunnyflower ships with a farming land equivalent to the one on the North American Great Plains where the greatest amount of food are produced and still being produced.
It is also where all the New Macross Emigration ships are tested before they are allowed to leave the sol system and today, another New Macross Emigration ships is ready for its long journey to another world.
Today however it got a delayed launch, as a colonial Stealthstar reappeared above the 'Eye of Jupiter' from a disrupted ftl jump that turned into a 'Blind Jump' 20,000 light years away, and reappeared unseen and undetected as it happens at the opposite side of the planet.
Battlestar Valkyrie
"Bill….Bill" someone's speaking to a man stirring into consciousness as that voice called out again "Bill…come on…wake up"
Commander Admiral William 'Bill' Adama opens his eyes to see the face of his XO and long time friend Col. Saul Tigh who himself is a bit battered (bleeding from a scar on his right temple) after that blind jump.
"Saul" Adama said back finally, confirming being awake as he is help up to his feet by Saul
"Status" Adama ask groggily
"Navigation is trying to figure out where we are, Dradis is down" Saul answered "whatever that damn nuke did, it pushed us out of our plotted course and into unknown territories which pretty much burned the jump drives"
"Casualties"
"Well…we have 122 dead when the thirteeners blew off landing bay 2 apart, 202 injured, we lost 25 Viper in the fight and most of them are out of commission at landing bay 1, and all our guns are offline"
"And the bad news"
"The bad news, were dead in the water" Saul said flatly which made Adama head ache even more. It distressed him to leave the fleet and his son Lee who is MIA back on Demeter where last he heard, he got shot down but was able to bail out in time.
"So we end up in the middle of nowhere, no navigation, no Dradis, no weapons, no fighter cover," he heaves and then asks "what about the good news" and Saul smile at him
"Kara got on board just in the nick of time and…she brought something back"
"What"
Landing Bay 1
Major Ozma Lee of the SMS is not in the good mood as getting captured by the colonial is of any indication, after one somewhat insane fighter pilot, slammed her Viper into his Valkyrie in Gerwalk-mode and then hit after-burners that push him into the landing bay of the enemy battlestar that made a getaway jump after that.
The next thing he remembers, he's tide up and surrounded by colonial marines while their technicians are going thru his fighter like children with a brand new toy to play with.
Ozma can see that they pry open his cockpit as the means to remove him and right now a short blonde haired woman, most likely the lunatic pilot that got his butt into this predicament, is playing around with the cockpit controls.
Thankfully, they haven't removed his helmet yet where the neural interface is still connected to his fighter and the fighter is still responding to his will.
Lieutenant Kara Thrace call sign 'Starbuck' felt like she just crawled into the insides of a cylon body which made her skin crawl and yet it fascinated her that the thirteenth tribe created a fighter that can out fly their best fighter and take on a battlestar carrying the firepower of a battlestar.
"What the frak is all this stuff" Kara said as she press a few button and flicking a few switches just to see what they can do "I can't make heads or tail on what the rest of these instruments will do" she look beside the plane and sees the chief engineer
"Any luck on your side chief?" she asks
"Your guess is as good as mine Starbuck," he answered Senior Chief Petty Officer; Galen Tyrol is looking thru the weapons of the plane and got a cartridge of a 58mm GU-17 Gatling gun comparing it to their 30mm autocannon rounds, lots of missiles of different shapes and sizes and the coup de grace, of the find, one human size combat knife that slide out of its container and on to the deck.
"Why the frak do they have a knife the size of my cabin and installed it on their fighter of all things!"
"Maybe they are fighting Titans" remark by one of the female deck hands named Cally, giving her a curious look
"Well maybe…I mean, come on" he was ignored by everyone
"What about you doc, find anything interesting?" she looks at Doctor Gaius Baltar, the twelve colonies eccentric genius, is looking at one of the turbine engines which turn out to be a thermonuclear. The scientist in him is ecstatic at the find and wanting to know more about the thirteenth tribe advance technology even more now.
"Interesting, oh yes my dear Starbuck, I found something interesting" he said delighted at what he found "They are a very interesting people
"I would like to know about these people myself more" Kara said "like why the frak do they want to turn their fighters into fifty foot giant cylons of all things"
"Γιατί μερικές φορές οι αντιπάλοι μας είναι δύο φορές μεγαλύτεροι και φέρουν πολύ περισοτερη δύναμη πυρός από ότι εμεις"
Translation: "Because sometimes our adversaries are twice as big and carry a lot more firepower than we do" Ozma answered in perfect Greek and pretty much surprised everyone
"Μιλάτε caprican;"
Translation: "You speak caprican?"
"Actually I speak greek which you call caprican"
Translation: "Στην πραγματικότητα Μιλώ Ελληνικά που μπορείτε να καλέσετε caprican"
Kara got down from the fighter and faced Ozma and into the eyes of a hardened warrior
"My name is Lieutenant Kara Thrace of the colonial fleet"
"Major Ozma Lee of the Space Military Services or SMS"
"SMS" Kara looks at him a bit confused "Don't you mean NUNS?"
"We are part of the current military yes, however, that's only during wartime that we become part of the NUNS. SMS is a Private Military Provider for corporations and supplement security for Earth's colonization fleet"
Kara just nodded saying she understands
"That's a very impressive plane you have there" Kara gestures to Ozma fighter
"Our fighters are called Valkyrie and that is a VF-25 Messiah and not this Cylons you keep referring to." He said
"Its Earth's top of the line fighter, something your bucket of bolts you called a Viper has the hardest time fighting against"
"Excuse me" Kara said back venomously, hearing what Ozma called her viper 'a bucket of bolts' would be grounds for Ozma introduction to their airlocks and beyond that, the vacuum of space.
Fortunately for Ozma, Kara can't do that because the man carries valuable Intel
Just as Kara was about to asks a question Admiral Adama and his XO arrived to inspect the captured fighter.
Ozma notice the kind of respect they have for the Admiral as he seems to be enjoying a look around his fighter which he suspects that he's a pilot himself in his younger day.
The AK/VF-M9 Assault Knife that he's looking at now with the same expression Kara and the chief had a while ago
"Yeah, the same thing came to our minds as well when we saw that, Admiral" Said Kara confirming
"It begs to be asks, what kind of enemy they have been fighting against before fighting us" Chief Tyrol ads
"We should asks the pilot about that, then" the Admiral then walks towards their prisoner of war.
The Admiral and Ozma look at each other for a moment, assessing each other strength and what each other see is that both men are dedicated soldier of their respective people.
Ozma can see in the Admiral face that he is a season veteran, well experience in the art of war which is why that short jump maneuver was so successful. He also noted an air of respect from the crew and he has a feeling that the man can be reason with.
" Το στόλο σας έχει παραδοθεί ή έχει ήδη Καταστρέφονται, και είναι το μόνο δύο αποτελέσματα που θα προκύψει από αυτή τη μάχη, αλλά θα ξέρετε ήδη ότι ο Ναύαρχος Adama
;"
Translation: "Your fleet has either surrendered or has already been destroyed, and it's the only two outcomes that will come out of that battle, but you already know that Admiral Adama" Ozma said first which surprised the Admiral for the man knowing his name already
"You know me?"
"Only by reputation" he replied
"That maneuver was impressive and had you employ that kind of attack to begin with, you might and I emphasize 'might' had a chance …to only slow us down but can never defeat us"
"Only slow us down but can never defeat you" the Admiral repeated
"I would disagree with you, but…" he paused for a moment and remembering that an armada of 200 battlestars has just got their ass kick by only a dozen warships.
"The people of Earth do not take too kindly to invaders, human or aliens. You are fighting a people that wages wars in a different level" Ozma said
"So it seems" the admiral seemingly agrees looking back at the fighter
"Wait-wait, did you just say aliens, you are joking," Kara interrupts
"What, you think that the universe is filled with just humans and …your colonial creations the cylons, then you have a very narrow vision of the universe, Kara Thrace" he said back
That got everyone a bit uneasy, especially the Admiral who happens to be a veteran of the Cylon Wars
"What do you know of them" the Admiral asks curious of what they know and what their view on them is
"Only from what I heard from a debriefing I got from the NUNS when they recon your home Starsystems Admiral Adam" he said "you guys created a race of sentient AI to do your menial work, fight your wars and then dispose them after you are finish using them like some dirty rags" he said to his stunned audience
"The Cylons rebelled resulting in what is known as the Cylon War, causing millions of deaths and ended in an armistice and then years later, you found us, starts another war and got your butts kick by us" he said Ozma shortest summary version of colonial history
That quieted everyone and it got everyone very worried especially the Admiral, for the idea of them knowing the colonies locations is true, then that means that, the thirteenth tribe can and will bring the war into their backyard.
The Colonial Military was confident of their planetary defenses should the thirteenth tribe retaliates from their actions, however, seeing what the thirteenth tribe can really do first hand, the Admiral doubts that the defenses won't even last a day if they employ the kind of weaponry and technology that the thirteenth tribe are using.
Ozma heaves a sigh before speaking again
"Whatever information or knowledge you may gain from me or my fighter, it will not matter now, for defeat is the only outcome for you" he said grimly
"You committed an act of war on the people of the New United Nations Earth Government and for that, you get to see your world burn unless, unless you try and make peace now!"
"Feh, you frak, you think we are scared of you" XO Saul Tigh scoff back
"You should be scared of us" Ozma replied "12 ships took on 200 of your battlestars and we were just a small patrol fleet to boot. A fleet told to hold you up until the main fleet arrive a day later," he said
"What fleet you are talking about?" Adama asks
"A fleet of thousands ships, ships far more powerful than the ones you picked a fight with" he answered
"We, members of The New United Nations Spacys are a million warships strong, protecting a hundred a thousand colonized worlds where a hundred are a full fledge nation with a total population of over 40 billion people" Ozma declared
"A million warships"
"A thousand worlds"
"40 billion people"
"Quiet! All of you!" Yelled XO Tigh to everyone who is in an earshot of the conversation
"You are talking frak!" Kara spoke up disbelieving "nobody has a million warships let alone a thousand, its impossible"
"Then why don't you look outside your ship and believe my words"
"Outside" Adama felt a bad feeling coming and then right on cue the battlestar shake from a gravity distortion caused by multiple spacefold event
Outside
The home guard of the NUNS numbers over a hundred thousand warships and several hundreds of thousands of fighters have now surrounded the lone Battlestar. Back on board, Ozma helmet is actively in communication with the flagship of the home guard, after a security satellite detected an anomaly and identified it as a colonial ftl jump.
The NUNS scrambled their forces and sent a battle carrier to the location where they found the battlestar and then to their surprise, they detected OZM SOS signal.
Kara Thrace had no idea that she had open the backup wireless connection to Ozma helmet when she was pressing buttons and flipping switches of his fighter. That gave Ozma a line to make an SOS call and lucky for him, someone answered and to his surprise, they were HOME.
"Welcome to the Earth Solar System,"